Flowers in the Dustbin

Jonathan Levi Los Angeles Times Book Review An intelligent, unhysterical account of the Rise and Fall of the Rock "n" Roll Empire. Miller reminds us that rock -- no matter its deluge of sales -- is not a single, mighty river charging through the heartland of the country but a veritable tangle of streams.

Autorentext
A retired chef of over 40 years, James Miller has finally achieved his dream of becoming a writer. This is his third book - a sequel to the first - written during the Covid shutdown. Married for 35 years to Jill, he has three children and four grandchildren. James enjoys travelling and meeting people along the way, which helps to inspire his writing creativity. Having achieved a lot as a chef, James hopes one day to write a piece of work that will propel him forward in the literary world and hopefully make him a bestseller.

Klappentext
Miller presents a fly-on-the-wall look at the history of rock and roll music, recounting 45 rock epiphanies in a provocative and anecdotal format.

Zusammenfassung
A prizewinning historian and journalist who has covered the pop music scene for more than three decades, James Miller brings a powerful and challenging intellectual perspective to his recounting of some key turning points in the history of rock. Arguing that the music underwent its full creative evolution in little more than twenty-five years, he traces its roots from the jump blues of the forties to the disc jockeys who broadcast the music in the early fifties. He shows how impresarios such as Alan Freed and movie directors such as Richard Brooks (of Blackboard Jungle) joined black music to white fantasies of romance and rebellion, and then mass-marketed the product to teenagers. He describes how rock matured as a form of music, from Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley to the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Marvin Gaye, defining a decade of rebellious ferment. At the same time, he candidly recounts how trendsetting rock acts from Jim Morrison and the Doors in the late sixties to the Sex Pistols in the late seventies became ever more crude, outrageous, and ugly -- "as if to mark," writes Miller, "the triumph of the psychopathic adolescent."
Richly anecdotal and always provocative, Flowers in the Dustbin tells the story of rock and roll as it has never been told before.

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Contents

Preface: A Rock and Roll Chronicle

1: Life Could Be a Dream

December 28, 1947: "Good Rockin' Tonight"

October 29, 1949: Red Hot and Blue

April 1950: Fender Guitars

Winter 1950-1951: "The Tennessee Waltz"

Winter 1950-1951: "Teardrops From My Eyes"

1951: Top 40

March 21, 1952: The Moondog Coronation Ball

August 1952: "Kansas City"

Summer 1953: Elvis Hears Voices

March 15, 1954: "Sh-Boom"

July 30, 1954: Elvis Discovers His Body

November 24, 1954: Copyrighting "Rock and Roll"

Spring 1955: Blackboard Jungle

2: Rock and Roll Music

March 15, 1955: "Ain't It a Shame"

May 21, 1955: "Maybellene"

September 14, 1955: "Tutti Frutti"

November 1955: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"

December 19, 1955: "Blue Suede Shoes"

3: All Shook Up

June 5, 1956: Elvis From the Waist Down

March 25, 1957: Ricky Nelson Impresses His Girlfriend

August 5, 1957: American Bandstand

October 21, 1957: Jailhouse Rock

October 15, 1958: "Lonely Teardrops"

November 22, 1959: Payola

May 12, 1960: Elvis Comes Home

4: Glad All Over

November 9, 1961: Brian Epstein Enters the Cavern

1961-1962: Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singers

September 4, 1962: "How Do You Do It?"

April 28, 1963: Andrew Loog Oldham Enters the Crawdaddy Club

November 11, 1963: BEATLEMANIA!

July 25, 1965: Dylan Goes Electric

October-November 1965: Rubber Soul

5: Break on Through

December 4, 1965: The Acid Test

February 8-13, 1966: Andy Warhol, Up-Tight

June 1, 1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

June 16-18, 1967: Monterey Pop

June 7, 1968: "Sympathy for the Devil"

1970-1971: What's Going On

July 3, 1971: The End

6: Stairway to Heaven

July 9, 1972: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

1972-1973: The Harder They Come

August 1, 1973: American Graffiti

October 1975: Rock and Roll Future

December 2, 1976: "Anarchy in the U.K."

August 16, 1977: My Way

Epilogue: "No Future"

Notes and Discographies

Acknowledgments

Index

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